Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 88% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 3 November 2074 at 19:21.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2074 after 26 days on 3 December 2074 at 14:03.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 8.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1937".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 925 of Meeus index or 1878 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 44 minutes and it is 40 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 9 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠335.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠352.3°.
1 day since point of apogee on 6 November 2074 at 10:36 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 November 2074 at 07:37 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 404 579 km (251 394 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 121 km (221 905 mi).
11 days after descending node on 26 October 2074 at 15:21 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 November 2074 at 01:28 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the last southern standstill on 25 October 2074 at 10:55 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.522° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠21.659° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 November 2074 at 20:11 in ♋ Cancer.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 18 November 2074 at 20:56 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
